<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hm perhaps it's just issues with SF. NB seems to have a much bigger theft issue that we at the Hacker Dojo have. I remember seeing an email a few weeks ago about some guy named "eric" who stole someone's laptop. </div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I bet if NB moved to a less seedy area, the thefts wouldn't be as rampant.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>NYC Resistor has no trouble having nice things around and they're in
NYC. The differences between NYC resistor and Noisebridge are huge, but
I'd guess the difference has a lot more to do with culture than with
location. (They're also not an open-access space, which is definitely a
huge cultural difference.)<br><br>Just saying "oh hey maybe it's just
the location" is a convenient way to pretend that brokenness isn't
broken, IMO. And really saying that anything is "only reason" for stuff
like this is a pretty aggressive attempt at demolishing nuance.<br><br>Of
course broken is all in the eye of the beholder. If folks are okay
with a hackerspace that can't be used to hack on anything that requires
nice things (in this case, we're not even talking nice things like real
equipment, some of which actually manages to stay around, but nice
things like... power drills or even being able to expect to find a
hammer in a deterministic location when you need one) then you know,
maybe noisebridge doesn't have any problems. I've been trying to figure
out how noisebridge could fit into my life and benefit my hacking, but
I've been struggling to figure out how a space where keeping a power
drill around is regarded as a risky move fits into things.<br><br>My
tentative conclusion so far is that it doesn't. (For that and a few
other reasons.) Which seems a huge shame. And full disclosure: maybe
I'm a little bitter about it.<br><br>But thanks to Martin for taking
time and expending effort and energy to give the conversation some
data. Whether or not the data is perfect or whether or not the
methodology is perfect (neither of them are, but neither of those things
are ever perfect) is irrelevant to the fact that there's now a bit more
actual data than there was before he posted these results. I hope the
community takes the opportunity to think about it all for awhile.<br><br>~DJ<br></div></div>